Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2015

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1. Dark Energy
   Jlin
2. Zamknęły się oczy ziemi
   Stara Rzeka
3. From Kinshasa
   Mbongwana Star
4. F (X)
   Carter Tutti Void
5. Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
   Matana Roberts
6. Culture of Volume
   East India Youth
7. Kahraba
   Eek!
8. Garden of Delete
   Oneohtrix Point Never
9. Music Complete
   New Order
10. Platform
    Holly Herndon
11. In Plain Speech
    Circuit Des Yeux
12. American Drift
    Elysia Crampton
13. Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984
    The Inward Circles
14. Olympic Mess
    Helm
15. Dream a Garden
    Jam City
16. Apocalypse, Girl
    Jenny Hval
17. Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
    Teeth of the Sea
18. Edition 1
    King Midas Sound & Fennesz
19. Kannon
    Sunn O)))
20. Beneath Swooping Talons
    Laura Cannell
21. Hawthonn
    Hawthonn
22. Infinity Machines
    Gnod
23. POINT#03
    WIDT
24. If He Dies, If If If If If If
    Jerusalem in My Heart
25. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
26. Ba Power
    Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
27. B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
    Kurt Vile
28. Radio Static High
    Hey Colossus
29. Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints
    RP Boo
30. Severe
    My Disco
31. Dark Sky Island
    Enya
32. Grain Fever
    One More Grain
33. Noments
    Chrononautz
34. Have You In My Wilderness
    Julia Holter
35. Grind
    DJ Richard
36. Apocalypse Pop
    Karin Park
37. Rabbit Eclipse
    Księżyc
38. Frozen Niagara Falls
    Prurient
39. Dark Matter / Dark Energy
    Membranes
40. Peau froide, léger soleil
    Mika Vainio & franck vigroux
41. FRKWYS, Vol. 12 – We Know Each Other Somehow
    Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma
42. Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine…I’m Your Biggest Fan
    The Eccentronic Research Council
43. Mutant
    Arca
44. Always Offended Never Ashamed
    Kerridge
45. Hinterland
    LoneLady
46. Nyanza
    Owiny Sigoma Band
47. Piteous Gate
    M.E.S.H.
48. Jaakko Eino Kalevi
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
49. As Sure As Night Follows Day
    Russell Haswell
50. Vulnicura
    Björk
51. Communion
    Rabit
52. Deeper
    The Soft Moon
53. DS2
    Future
54. Skullsplitter
    Eric Chenaux
55. Abyss of Longing Throats
    Gnaw Their Tongues
56. Low Key Movements
    Imaginary Forces
57. Captain of None
    Colleen
58. Wire
    Wire
59. Levon Vincent
    Levon Vincent
60. The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now
    FIS
61. Hi Fi Classics
    Meatraffle
62. Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle, Vol. 1
    Anthony Child
63. Algiers
    Algiers
64. Different Selves
    Shapednoise
65. Behold
    Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke
66. Taraxacum
    Leif
67. Enki
    Melechesh
68. Pearson Sound
    Pearson Sound
69. Sprinter
    TORRES
70. Dollhouse Songs
    Consumer Electronics
71. Integrity
    Jme
72. Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion
    Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon
73. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
74. Cradle for the Wanting
    Ian William Craig
75. LP
    Container
76. Bad Guynaecology
    Bad Guys
77. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
78. Suburban Hunting
    Broken English Club
79. Invisible Switch
    Joey Anderson
80. 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
    Shit & Shine
81. Blackheart
    Dawn Richard
82. Fevered Realities
    Cornered Yet Climbing Featuring Kelly Jayne Jones
83. Further West Quad Cult
    Master Musicians of Bukkake
84. Modern Nature
    The Charlatans
85. Alone (Ténéré)
    Terakaft
86. So the Flies Don’t Come
    Milo
87. Aeonflower
    Paper Dollhouse
88. Sun Czar Temple
    Claude Speeed
89. Real Life
    Real Lies
90. Ship of Theseus
    Jute Gyte
91. London Overgrown
    John Foxx
92. Fantasy Empire
    Lightning Bolt
93. Vertigo
    The Necks
94. Bleeds
    Roots Manuva
95. King of Keyboard
    Rizan Said
96. Obscure Knowledge
    Guapo
97. The Iqrit files
    Checkpoint 303
98. The Tigers Of Mount Paektu
    Eugene The Oceanographer
99. Hddn
    RSS Boys
100. Suicide Euphoria
     Pissgrave